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NIJH was established in
1985 to help alleviate suffering in serious and terminal
illness. It's 52,000 members comprise business and
professional leaders, and a consortium of endowing
foundations. It communicates with hospices, family service,
medical organizations, and all health-care agencies alerting
them to the plight of the Jewish terminally ill. |
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A 24 hour toll-free number
counsels families, patients and care givers, and provides
locations of hospices, hospitals, health professionals and
clergy of all faiths. 1-800-446-4448 |
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NIJH provides booklets, books, and cassettes and
monographs confronting such issues as truth telling and
euthanasia; and provides insights into the art of hoping,
the techniques of caring, and the understanding of pain.
The NIJH JEWISH LIVING WILL AND DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY
document is available to anyone at minimal cost. |
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NIJH recently embarked on
an accreditation program providing on site training to any
hospice, geriatric center or hospital in the
U.S..
Forty have
already been accredited. |
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NIJH's board of governors, headed by
Rabbi Dr. Maurice Lamm, President and Founder, and Shirley Lamm,
Executive Director, includes nationally known leaders in
business, academia, government and religion who have given
their name to support the cause of the Jewish terminally
ill. |
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| Since NIJH launched the idea of "Jewish
Hospice," the web browsers today site 26,000 references to
"Jewish" hospice. |
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| Visibly recognizable names
are Dean Dominick Purpura,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine; the Honorable Henry
Waxman, U.S. Congress; Professor William Cutter, Hebrew Union
College; Rabbi Elliot Dorff and Dr. Samuel Klagsbrun,
Jewish Theological Seminary; Rabbi Harold Schulweis; Dr. Avery
Weisman, Harvard Medical School; Dr. Laurens White, University
of California, S.F.; Dr. Herman Feifel, the father of
thanatology and the late Dr. Norman Cousins. |
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| NIJH is also pleased to have movie and media
stars as friends. Among them: Alan Alda, Neil Simon, Judge
Joseph Wapner, Abigail Van Buren, Jack Klugman, Herman Wouk,
the late Shari Lewis and Jessica Tandy. |
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Contact us at:
National Institute for Jewish
Hospice
732 University Street
North Woodmere, New York
11581 | |
